A tiny post just to say I am glad that the site reached the 10 000 guests gap in one month exactly !

Back to the topic, I currently can’t keep dreaming about one person (it can’t be helped, I miss her) and also about one city…
Since only one of these dreams can be fullfilled, I keep teasing me all the day by watching photos and videos about the city. Let me share with you another splendid sight !

Today’s news, some of them are important, some other are totally meaningless, some of them might change the future forever (or at least for the next five years ) !

• 1) I got a new haircut, to change my look (do not tell me nobody cares, I already know lol ….)
• 2) A new revision of the RSS 2.0 Bittorrent Feed White Paper will be on work in one week, I am glad to see this document has launched discussions and is interesting people
• 3) Torrent Trader Lite v2.0.1 is in beta test, it will be released next week. I have fixed some bugs I noticed, and implanted the rss 2.0 update following the recommandations I wrote
• 4) Vbulletin Torrent Tracker 3.0 is under heavy work, estimated ETA is around 20 August. You can get a look at latest screenshots of the work in progress here
• 5) AMD bought ATI today, for 5,4 billion dollars. This, for sure, will change the landscape in the computer world. When two giants start working together (for the good, and THE BAD), what can we expect ? Wait and see …
• 6) I have received today my VISA for Hong-Kong !!! I am now 1 month far from the HK adventure !
• 7) I am going in holidays for one week in Corsica. This was totally unforecasted, my best friends offered me to come, and I couldn’t say no ^^. So, I will be back on 1st August ! Good week all

Lately, I have been thinking at the matter of inexistant standard for rss 2.0 feeds related to Bittorrent websites.

Finally, I have written a white paper with recommandations on how to design a bittorrent rss 2.0 feed.
I hope it will be useful to webmasters.

You can read here this paper

Today I have received my pre-arrival information from the Chinese University of Hong-Kong and also a guide to thrive and survive at Hong-Kong (welcome to the urban jungle !!!!)

Still one month and one week before I can see this splendid sight with my own eyes.
I am really eager to go !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yattah !

Today I finished a custom job someone requested me to do: it is a modified version of a Movies Listing script, which retrieves all informations directly from the IMDB database.

I have added to it more features, like NFO upload, nfo2png conversion, more criterias for categorizing …

Here are some screenshots of the result

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A very good eBook, written by Alban Martin, who followed an International Management Program both at HEC Paris in France and at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, USA.

If you want to make yourself an up-to-date opinion on current business models about the entertainment industry, and also the role of peer-to-peer networks in our daily habits, then I think it is worth reading it.

Recommandé par des Influenceurs.

Just to let you know I have opened the Technical Articles section of the site, with a tutorial on how to deal with Ampersands problems within Javascript code in a XHTML page.

After spending several hours coding and testing it, I think it is now time to release the latest version of my bittorrent tracker software: Torrent Trader Lite.

More details and download here

What is Torrent Trader Lite ?

Torrent Trader Lite is an open source php bittorrent tracker that works without MySql.
With a very intuitive interface, it will help you to distribute your files, without requiring you hours of work !

What’s new in this version ?

First, I have updated the layout and made the site XHTML 1.0 compliant, but these are only the most visible changes.
The most important change is the introduction of the AJAX BROWSING mode, that makes page loading a lot faster (because only the essential information is loaded, not the whole page), and browsing is really smoother. Just give it a try to see the changes ! Browsing torrents has never been so fast !

Among the other changes, I can quote the addition of a FAQ page, so your users will learn how BitTorrent works.
The backend has also changed, Torrent Trader Lite tracker engine is now based on my other software: SBT (which is just a tracker with no frontend), in an updated version that I will release in a few days. It should bring an overall performance improvment, for even more blasting torrent browsing !

What are its main features ?

• PHP only: no mysql database required
• Has search, browse per category, RSS2, upload, torrent banning, news posting, ajax browsing … options
• Very easy to customize
• It is open source, so everyone can contribute
• Details about the torrents are displayed: info_hash,description,image,nfo,seeders,leechers …
• You can block torrents that you do not want to be tracked with a file lock
• support for multiple languages
• faq page added so your users understand what BitTorrent is
• W3C xHTML and CSS standard compliant
• Multiple page browsing
• Ajax browsing mode: get all updated informations on one page !
• Improved performance and support for all bittorrent protocol latest features (multiscrape, comptact mode, magnet/dht links …)
• …

This week-end I took some rest at Villard de Lans, a small village with 4000 inhabitants, located in Isere, 30 km far from Grenoble. I am used to this place, since it’s now about 6 years I go there everytime I have some free time. I really enjoy the fact that it gathers in the same place an ice-skating ring, three swimming-pools, some tennis courts, a bowling. It is also a central place for people who love walking (just like me ^^), and it offers a great skiing domain. To sum up, Villard de Lans is a place where you can do almost any sportive activity you want, and is less hype than stations like Megève (where I used to go when I was a child), Avoriaz …

So, how did I enjoy my week-end, and how did I spend my time ? Every morning, I went to the swimming pool and stayed there swimming during 2 hours. Then I did some shopping (just looked, bought nothing) in the village. The afternoon, after reading something while sun-tanning on the balcony of the apartment, I went for a walk. And when it became late, around 7 pm, I just got enough time to come back before summer storms broke up, and I avoided rain. And the night ? Sleeping ! Because I am not used to do so much sportive activities in my everyday’s life, and I was really exhausted by the end of the day lol.

I have attached some photos from the walk I made on Saturday, enjoy the sight !
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Everytime I hear this song on the radio, it strucks me. Not only do I like the music, but also the lyrics are particularly meaningful to me currently. Try to hear it just one time to see if you like it or not.
I personnaly do ^^

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